And this is therefore the 3rd year of the 203rd decade .
The year started with the continuation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in early 2022. In January, July and September, Islamist suicide bombers killed a total of over 200 people in Pakistan . In February, an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria , that killed more than 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century . in April, India became the world's most populous country , overtaking China . In September, Storm Daniel killed nearly 7,000 people in Bulgaria , Greece , Libya and Turkey. In September, Azerbaijan launched an offensive which ended the existence of the Republic of Artsakh , causing its Armenian inhabitants to move back to Armenia . Between October to December, over 23,000 Palestinians and 1,300 Israelis were killed during a war between Israel and Hamas .
Former King of Greece Constantine II , former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf , former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi , musicians Burt Bacharach , Tina Turner and Tony Bennett and footballer Bobby Charlton died.
Events
January January 1 January 4 – Mahas bombings in Mahas District , Hiran , Somalia . January 5 – The funeral of Pope Benedict XVI is held at Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City . January 5–13 – Unrest follows the arrest of drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López in Sinaloa , Mexico , killing 10 soldiers and 19 cartel members. January 8 January 10 – Constantine II , the last King of Greece , dies aged 82. January 10-17 – A winter storm in Afghanistan begins, killing over 120 people. January 15 – A plane crash in Nepal kills all 72 people onboard. January 16 – Italian police arrest Matteo Messina Denaro , the head of Sicilian Mafia in Palermo , Sicily . January 17 – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigns as President of Vietnam and is replaced by Võ Thị Ánh Xuân . January 18 January 19 – Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation as Prime Minister of New Zealand , months before the general election . Three days later, Chris Hipkins is elected as her replacement. January 20 – Christine Kangaloo is elected as the 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago . January 21 – In a mass shooting at a Chinese New Year celebration, a gunman kills eleven people in Monterey Park, California , United States . Two days later, seven others would be killed in another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California . January 24 – A green comet makes its closest approach to the Earth . January 27 –28 – The second round of the 2023 Czech presidential election is held. Petr Pavel wins the election. January 30 – An Islamist suicide bomber kills over 80 people in a mosque in Peshawar , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan. February February 3 – A train carrying hazardous materials runs off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio , United States. Several train cars burned for more than two days, and then emergency crews did a controlled burn of more cars. The fires released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere . February 4 – The U.S. Government shoots down a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina . February 5 – The 2023 Cypriot presidential election is held, with Nikos Christodoulides elected president . February 6 – An earthquake in southeastern Turkey kills over 45,000 people in Turkey and over 6,000 in Syria. February 20 – 2023 Daytona 500.[source? ] February 21 – President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US. February 25 – 2023 Nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria 's president , defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi . February 27 – The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement about changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol. February 28 – A head-on train crash in Tempi, Larissa, Thessaly , Greece, kills at least 57 people. March March 2 – The National Assembly of Vietnam declares Võ Văn Thưởng as the country's new president after receiving 98.38% votes from the Vietnamese parliament. March 4 – United Nations member states agree on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030. March 5 – 2023 Estonian parliamentary election March 9 – A former Jehovah's Witness kills seven people, a fetus and himself in a mass shooting at a Kingdom Hall in Hamburg , Germany . March 10 2023 People's Republic of China presidential election: The National People's Congress unanimously re-elects Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term. Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016 at talks meditated by China. Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world. March 17 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin. This is the first arrest warrant it has issued against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council . March 19 – Swiss investment bank UBS Group AG agrees to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs (US$3.2 billion ) in an all-stock deal brokered by the government of Switzerland and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. Residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia , Ukraine after Russian rocket strikes on 22 March 2023, the second day of Xi Jinping's visit to Russia March 20 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change . March 26 – 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests: Protests break out across Israel, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister who spoke against the government's judicial reform plan. March 27 April May June July This section
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July 17 – Wildfires begin in Greece, killing 35 people. July 18 – Voyager 2 overtook Pioneer 10 to become the 2nd farthest spacecraft from the Sun. July 27 – Kuwait executes five by hanging, including a man convicted for a ISIS mosque bombing in 2015 that had killed 26 people. July 30 – 2023 Khar bombing in Pakistan. August September September 2 September 4 – Saudi Pro League clubs will now play Champions League matches in Iran as both nations resume home-and-away games. September 4 – 12 – Storm Daniel September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake : A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes western Morocco 's Marrakesh -Safi province. Atleast 2946 people killed and more than 5,650 injured. September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi , India, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20. September 10 – Storm Daniel : A Mediterranean storm resembling a tropical cyclone struck Libya , causing a significant loss of life, with at least 5,000 people losing their lives. Libyan authorities reported a vast number of people missing, ranging from 10,000 to as many as 100,000. Additionally, in the city of Derna , two dams gave way, leading to the destruction of a quarter of the city. September 18 – Iran releases five Americans as the United States unfreezes $ 6 billion of Iran which was blocked in South Korea while also releasing five Iranians in a prisoner exchange deal. September 23 – 2023 Beledweyne bombing in Somalia September 24 – OSIRIS-REx returns with samples from the asteroid Bennu . September 25 – Berkadzor fuel depot explosion in Berkadzor, Nagorno-Karabakh . September 26 Qaraqosh wedding fire: More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh, Nineveh Governorate , Iraq . Saudi Arabia to resume flights to Canada as relations between the two countries normalize after 2018 dispute . September 27 – Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps puts 'Noor-3', an imaging satellite, 450 kms into an orbit above the earth. September 29 2023 Mastung bombing: A suicide bombing takes place killing at least 59 and injuring more than 70 people at a gathering in Mastung District of Balochistan , Pakistan. Hangu mosque bombing in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan September 30 – 2023 Slovak parliamentary election. October November This section
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Deaths
January Constantine II of Greece Gina Lollobrigida January 2 – Ken Block , American rally driver (b. 1967 ) January 3 – Abdelsalam Majali , 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925 ) January 4 Rosi Mittermaier, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1950 ) Marie Kovarova, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1927 ) January 6 January 7 - Modeste M'bami, Cameroonian footballer and Olympic champion January 9 - K. Alex Müller , Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1927 ) January 10 January 13 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1931 ) January 16 January 17 – Lucile Randon , French supercentenarian (b. 1904 ) January 18 – David Crosby , American musician (b. 1941 ) January 23 – Álvaro Colom , 47th President of Guatemala (b. 1951 ) January 24 – B. V. Doshi , Indian architect (b. 1927 ) January 30 – Bobby Hull , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939 ) February Pervez Musharraf Burt Bacharach Raquel Welch February 2 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French F1 driver (b. 1942 ) February 3 – Paco Rabanne , Spanish-French fashion designer (b. 1934 ) February 4 – Sherif Ismail , 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955 ) February 5 – Pervez Musharraf , 10th President of Pakistan (b. 1943 ) February 6 February 8 February 10 February 13 – José María Gil-Robles , 8th President of the European Parliament (b. 1935 ) February 14 – Shoichiro Toyoda , Japanese businessman (b. 1925 ) February 15 February 17 – Stella Stevens , American actress (b. 1938 ) February 18 – Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1944 ) February 21 – Amancio, Spanish footballer (b. 1939 ) February 22 – Ahmed Qurei , 2nd Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (b. 1937 ) February 23 – John Motson , English football commentator (b. 1945 ) February 24 – Walter Mirisch , American film producer (b. 1921 ) February 26 – Bob Richards , American pole vaulter and Olympic champion (b. 1926 ) February 27 – Gérard Latortue , 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1934 ) March Just Fontaine Kenzaburō Ōe Chaim Topol Lance Reddick Dubravka Ugrešić March 1 – Just Fontaine , French footballer (b. 1933 ) March 2 March 3 March 5 Klaus Bonsack, German luger and Olympic champion (b. 1941 ) Gary Rossington, American guitarist (b. 1951 ) Shozo Sasahara, Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1929 ) March 6 – Josef Vojta, Czechoslovakian football player (b. 1935 ) March 7 – Pat McCormick, American diver and Olympic champion (b. 1930 ) March 8 Satish Kaushik, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1956 ) Chaim Topol , Israeli actor, singer, and illustrator (b. 1935 ) March 9 March 11 – Ignacio López Tarso , Mexican actor (b. 1925 ) March 14 – Bobby Caldwell, American musician (b. 1951 ) March 17 March 18 – Pedro Solbes, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1942 ) March 19 – Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa , 17th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1951 ) March 20 – Osvaldo Héctor Cruz , Argentine footballer (b. 1931 ) March 21 March 22 – Vera T. Sós, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1930 ) March 24 Jean-Jacques Favier, French astronaut (b. 1949 ) Gordon Moore , American businessman, engineer and philanthropist (b. 1929 ) March 25 – Pascoal Mocumbi , 2nd Prime Minister of Mozambique March 26 March 28 – Ryuishi Sakamoto, Japanese composer (b. 1952 ) March 31 – Rabbie Namaliu, 4th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1947 ) April Harry Belafonte Jerry Springer April 1 Klaus Teuber, German board game designer (b. 1952 ) Włodzimierz Schmidt, Polish chess grandmaster (b. 1943 ) April 5 April 7 April 10 - Fernando Sánchez Dragó, Spanish writer (b. 1936 ) April 11 - Anne Perry, British writer and convicted murderer (b. 1938 ) April 13 April 14 Murray Melvin, English actor (b. 1932 ) Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (b. 1976 ) April 16 – Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist (b. 1930 ) April 19 - Moon Bin, South Korean singer, actor, dancer and model (b. 1998 ) April 20 – Josep Maria Fusté, Spanish footballer (b. 1941 ) April 21 – Juan Carlos Sarnari, Argentine footballer (b. 1942 ) April 22 - Mudar Badran , 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934 ) April 23 - Herb Douglas , American athlete (b. 1922 ) April 25 - Harry Belafonte , American singer, activist and actor April 27 Jean-Paul Costa, French jurist (b. 1941 ) Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Italian actor (b. 1954 ) Jerry Springer , American TV show host (b. 1944 ) April 28 – Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (b. 1935 ) April 30 – Ralph Boston , American athlete (b. 1939 ) May Jim Brown Tina Turner May 1 - Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938 ) May 2 Tori Bowie, American athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1990 ) Khader Adnan, 45, Palestinian hunger striker , medical negligence by israel (b. 1978 ) May 3 – Nikica Valentić, 5th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1950 ) May 9 May 10 - Rolf Harris , Australian entertainer and sex offender May 11 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1950 ) May 13 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda , Japanese athlete (b. 1933 ) May 14 Doyle Brunson , American poker player (b. 1933 ) Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (b. 1929 ) Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (b. 1936 ) May 15 – Robert Lucas Jr. , American economist (b. 1937 ) May 17 – "Superstar" Billy Graham , American professional wrestler (b. 1943 ) May 18 Helmut Berger, Austrian actor (b. 1944 ) Jim Brown , American professional football player and actor (b. 1936 ) May 19 Martin Amis , British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter (b. 1949 ) Dževad Karahasan, Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher (b. 1953 ) Andy Rourke , English bassist (b. 1964 ) May 21 - Ray Stevenson , Northern Irish actor (b. 1964 ) May 24 - Tina Turner , American singer and actress (b. 1939 ) May 28 June This section
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Rosalynn Carter Henry Kissinger November 1 – Bob Knight , American basketball player and coach (b. 1940 ) November 2 November 3 – Oleg Protopopov , Russian pair skater (b. 1932 ) November 6 – Antoni Martí , 6th Prime Minister of Andorra (b. 1963 ) November 7 - Frank Borman , American astronaut (b. 1928 ) November 11 - Dimitrie Popescu, Romanian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1961 ) November 12 - Rahim Huseynov , 3rd Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1936 ) November 16 - A. S. Byatt, English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer (b. 1936 ) November 18 - Ruud Geels , Dutch football player (b. 1948 ) November 19 November 25 - Terry Venables , English soccer player and coach (b. 1943 ) November 27 November 29 - Henry Kissinger , American political scientist and politician (b. 1923 ) November 30 Shane MacGowan , Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1957 ) Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1939 ) Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and politician (b. 1933 ) December Sandra Day O'Connor Ryan O'Neal Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Wolfgang Schäuble Tom Wilkinson December 1 - Sandra Day O'Connor , American jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1981–2006) (b. 1930 ) December 2 December 5 Denny Laine, English Hall of Fame musician and songwriter (b. 1944 ) Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein (b. 1972 ) December 6 December 7 December 8 - Ryan O'Neal , American actor (b. 1941 ) December 9 – Maxim Gustik , 35, Belarusian Olympic freestyle skier (2018, 2022), traffic collision (b. 1988 ) December 10 – Mahmoud Mashhoun [fa ] , 82, Iranian basketball player and former president, cardiac arrest (b. 1941 ) December 11 December 12 December 13 – Derek Stirling , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1961 ) December 14 – George McGinnis, American basketball player (b. 1950 ) December 15 – Abdulaziz Al-Babtain , 87, Kuwaiti poet and businessman (b. 1936 ) December 16 December 18 – Abderrahim Ouakili, 53, Moroccan footballer, (national team ), (b. 1970 ) December 19 – Mark Elvin, 85, Australian Sinologist (b. 1938 ) December 20 – Torben Ulrich , 95, Danish tennis player, (b. 1928 ) (death announced on this date) December 21 Robert Solow , American economist (b. 1924 ) Alexei Starobinsky, Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist (b. 1948 ) December 23 – Mike Nussbaum , American actor, (Fatal Attraction , Field of Dreams , Men in Black ) (b. 1923 ) December 24 – Kamar de los Reyes, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1967 ) December 25 – Sayyed Razi Mousavi , Iranian major general , Israeli airstrike. December 26 – Wolfgang Schäuble , German politician and statesman (b. 1942 ) December 27 December 29 – Gil de Ferran, French-born Brazilian professional racing driver (b. 1967 ) December 30 References
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